Domain Renewal

I haven't used my website in 8-9 months. It was a trial me and a friend set up and we decided it wasn't going to work. I changed the domain access from a .com to a wordpress.com and put the blog on private so noone could see it. I thought this would be the end but today I have found that I have had £11.55 taken for my domain name.

I never asked for this renewal nor did I want it. Can I get my money back and how can I cancel it for the future!? The domain site I registered with say I no longer exist.

I have now changed the direct debit so it won't' come out again automatically and understand I am unlikely to get a refund - annoying policy but hey ho.
However I would really just like to shut down this account completely - including all blogs and websites associated with this. Can someone help me do this / do it for me??

I have flagged this for the staff to see if they will give you a refund.

You can delete all your blogs from your Dashboard, but once the domain name is deleted it can't be used again - we recommend that you do as you had done - set a blog to "Private" then record your username and log-in info - - all the time we have people come into the forum that have changed their mind 6 months or a year later and want their blog name back.

Accounts are forever here - that prevents anyone from taking your ID here and impersonating you - you can clear all the info out of an account and use a junk throwaway email address and a real long password - @timethief has a nice set of instructions - with a bit of luck with the sun comes up she will see this thread and leave the instructions

Hi there - your domain had been set to auto-renew, and we do send out at least six reminders before the renewal goes through, as a heads-up. Is it possible those were being sent to spam and weren't getting through to you?

Canceling a domain after 2 days of purchase means you completely give up ownership of the domain. There is no guarantee the domain will become available to re-register after cancellation.

Not sure if this is the right place to post this but I have recevied an email from "Domain Services" entitled, "Domain Notification: MEG BIGNELL This is your Final Notice of Domain Listing - MEGORACLE.COM" - it tells me my domain will expire on 21/1 and I need to fax details to a number, including payment details. I am a bit suspicious. My blog is http://www.megoracle.com and I have received no other domain expiry alert. Am I being scammed? Thank you.

I didn't receive any notifications of the domain renewal - I no longer use the email address that is associated with the blog, as we closed to blog down and so the address served no purpose. I have checked the email inbox and can not see any reminders to renew in spam or in the in box.

Either way I would definitely like cancel the domain name as we will not be using it ever again.